I wouldn’t go that far, my external media drives really don’t get used as much it used to, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that people still using discs are now very uncommon anyway.
Doesn’t help that the blu-rays are still worse than piracy convenience wise due to the several layers of drm to bypass to be allowed to read a disc I own on hardware I own with software I also own…
Or by Valve and their clones to drive sales on their DRM’d game platforms. Movies haven’t really died out on physical, not as much or as early as PC games. Combine that with the tactics of idiots who also used Starforce and its clones and they’ve also left an impression outlasting the few games that were infected with the stuff. Now the new normal is to buy stuff infected with online account DRM as if that’s somehow better.
Okay but also I heard bluray movies can be directly played only on Windows, for other OSes you have to rip the movie. Must be fun.
Yeah I’m increasingly convinced the “Nobody uses discs anymore” thing is a coordinated manipulation campaign by rent-seeking streaming media giants…
I wouldn’t go that far, my external media drives really don’t get used as much it used to, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that people still using discs are now very uncommon anyway. Doesn’t help that the blu-rays are still worse than piracy convenience wise due to the several layers of drm to bypass to be allowed to read a disc I own on hardware I own with software I also own…
Or by Valve and their clones to drive sales on their DRM’d game platforms. Movies haven’t really died out on physical, not as much or as early as PC games. Combine that with the tactics of idiots who also used Starforce and its clones and they’ve also left an impression outlasting the few games that were infected with the stuff. Now the new normal is to buy stuff infected with online account DRM as if that’s somehow better.
Okay but also I heard bluray movies can be directly played only on Windows, for other OSes you have to rip the movie. Must be fun.